108 | Negroni Sbagliato It Is

With A Popcorn Garnish

Hello!

Nano

Insects are small, they already know how to fly, and — best of all — they power themselves.
— Emily Anthes

In an air-conditioned trailer, three geeks
barely beyond boyhood fist-bump and high-five

at a job well done. With the click of a key a dozen
soundless screens flutter. Now in the shallow

of a cave near the Khyber Pass, a stack of glow sticks
activated in the blast steeps the darkness green:

two cans of pineapple; a mangled can of beets
bleeding juice; some boy streaked black, his burns

wrapped in torn canvas tent ­flaps. He must hear the
cyborg beetle’s brains buzz like a circuit-­bent keyboard

above his Pashto prayers. But we know enough to
leave the live feed low, audio is for the analysts.

Our weapon : witnessing — : wired that way.
Somewhere in Texas or California or Kentucky

Taco Bell is on the table where too the kill list rests
quietly satisfied, and so its discord folds inward

like an origami acorn nestled sharply in the heart.

—Christopher Robley, Poetry (February 2015)

By the way, I'm Bruce Cole, Publisher of Edible San Francisco. If you’re new here, welcome to EAT.DRINK.THINK., a newsletter spotlighting seasonal recipes, the latest SF Bay Area food news, poetry, and more!

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Apologies for the abbreviated issue of this newsletter. We were slammed with deadlines and it was a very slow news week. We’re taking the next couple of weeks off and will be back on November 5th!

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Roasted Carrots With Creamy Nuoc Cham Sauce. Haven’t had a chance to make this recipe from Andy Baraghani that Andrea Nguyen shared, but the sauce sounds so worth the effort: “Viet people make nuoc cham in many ways so I’m always open to new takes, whether they come from Viet people or not. Baraghani’s creamy nuoc cham turned out to be svelte in texture with a garlicky, spicy, umami edge.”

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Amy Bentley @ABentleyNYC

Epic mashup

Stan Kelly @KartoonistKelly

And yet he's good at LOAFING ...

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British Bake Off @BritishBakeOff

The juan and only Matt & Noel welcome you to Mexico Week! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 #GBBO

Tejal Rao for the NY Times: “After 12 years, the show’s long, inexorable journey from comfort to cringe is complete.”

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David Mullins @dcmullins

kroger is buying albertsons who previously bought safeway so glad we live in this free, open market and not some communist nightmare

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If You’ve Been Following the Fishing Scandal: “Fishermen face felony charges over a cheating scandal at an Ohio tournament.” NPR

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept

Be diligent and check your child's candy this year, just found an invasive silver carp shoved inside a Milky Way. No words.

buffy @bamsisu

🚨 Parents, please be careful with Halloween candy this year! An alarming report shows that WE GOT WEIGHTS IN SWEDISH FISH!

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A Sad Disappearing Act:

Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2

"The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has, for the first time in state history, canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea due to their falling numbers...An estimated 1 billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared in 2 years."

cbsnews.comAlaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabsAn estimated 1 billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared from Alaskan waters in two years, officials said.

J Robyn @immarealunicorn

@davenewworld_2 “Mysteriously”

P @polly

I know the answer is probably climate change but I like to think the crabs, all one billion of them, simply started new lives elsewhere

Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2

"The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has, for the first time in state history, canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea due to their falling numbers...An estimated 1 billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared in 2 years." https://t.co/ID4BA46LXx

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Suddenly, Everyone Is Ordering Negroni Sbagliatos (recipe):

carrieee @ryejifiend

suddenly im a negroni sbagliato with prosecco in it

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On repeat this week (video): Everybody Wants To Rule the World (with Common) from Robert Glasper’s new release Black Radio III (Supreme Edition).

That’s all for this week.

We’re outta here. Be well and take care,
–Bruce

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"Despite its artistic intentions and its many accomplishments, humankind owes its existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." —Anonymous